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Post by sparacus on Sept 27, 2012 18:19:11 GMT -5
Most of the NUwho range seem to be by hack writers who I've never heard of. Surely my fiction has a higher profile among fandom than these unknown authors. So howw do I get a novel commissioned?
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Post by youthofoz on Sept 27, 2012 18:23:13 GMT -5
Get something else published.
Learn to spell.
Work under your real name.
Not use Ben Chatham.
Stick to the established writer's guidelines.
Come up with plots that weren't used in the Pertwee era.
Master the concept of prose rather than using astericks and stage directions.
Do some authorized adaptations of other TV shows.
Be able to write up to 50,000 words on a given novel.
And not slagging off the next showrunner might have been a good idea.
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Post by cameronjmason on Sept 27, 2012 22:33:34 GMT -5
Be able to stick to an agreed delivery date for completed manuscript.
Be able to deliver a completed story that matches the orginally agreed plot outline.
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Post by youthofoz on Sept 28, 2012 2:54:07 GMT -5
And just to remind everyone - FIFTY THOUSAND WORDS! I am trying to forge that out of a very thin, fourteen page script adaption of The Daemons only with more blood.
One of my ideas is the framing device of Ben telling his newborn son (born on Christmas Day, natch) of how he first met the Doctor. But I know portraying Ben as a loving husband and father could be too much of a stretch of the reader's credibility...
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Post by sparacus on Sept 28, 2012 15:23:53 GMT -5
Absurd suggestion. Ben Chatham is the main character in my spin off stories.
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Post by youthofoz on Sept 28, 2012 18:14:00 GMT -5
You're saying you cannot write anything without Ben Chatham in it?
Seriously?
*shakes head in despair*
Still, you've given tacit approval for me to create Ben's canonical children...
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